After dealing with that patrol, the vanguard officer immediately ordered his troops to pick up the pace and scale the wall.
The troops who had already crossed the wall searched along it for enemies, determined to kill every patrolman and defender they saw.
By then, they no longer intended to conceal their movements. Sure enough, once the Barbarian soldiers began attacking, the defenders and patrols quickly discovered them.
But the Barbarians no longer needed to hide their whereabouts. More than a hundred Barbarian soldiers had already charged inside the walls, killing everyone they encountered.
The defenders, caught scrambling to respond, were no match for them. Soon, the sounds of slaughter rang through the night sky, and the entire camp learned that the enemy was attacking.
The Barbarians advanced astonishingly quickly. Most of their vanguard troops had already entered the camp, and the stretch of wall facing the riverbank had all but fallen into their hands. Large numbers of patrolmen and defenders were cut down by the Barbarian soldiers.
The Barbarians' Vanguard Army was not content merely to occupy the wall. They pushed straight into the camp, continuing to attack defenders who had yet to react. They even set fires throughout the camp to sow chaos.
While setting fires, they also had the Barbarian soldiers make as much commotion as possible inside the camp. Whether by shouting or stirring up clouds of smoke and dust, they had to make the defenders believe that a large Barbarian force had broken in.
Under such an assault, most of the defenders fell into utter confusion.
Even the camp's commander, a noble officer, failed to respond correctly when he discovered that the Barbarians had broken into the camp.
In particular, when he saw his own soldiers scurrying about the camp and fires beginning to blaze,